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I'm Old Enough to Remember....
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This is a group where you can add at any time anything you remember from "back then" in our society that isn't the same now. It'll be fun to read how things have changed from a first hand experience of the posters here!
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Comment by wiffledust on September 18, 2011 at 8:07pm
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i just had a memory of something. when i was a little girl, i remember some news report or something from a weekly reader at school that said some day in the future we would be able to capture a still image from what we were seeing on tv. i thought that was the COOLEST thing i'd ever heard of and remember trying to tell people about it. nobody would listen to me. and look...now we're doing it!
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i seem to recall chingalinging along with some chains before they became illegal due to the tearing up of the roadway. they were only for bad ice though. there used to not be all weather tires. so we had to put snow tires on in the winter. that meant the garage was always filled with huge tires for huge cars. winter and summer tires. and the emergency chains. it's funny how i remember the snowstorms really well. my father refused to accept driving defeat when it came to any snow or ice storm. so we would go down streets sideways, and my dad would say "well we got down, didn't we?" :-)
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Comment by Robert Muscovitz on September 7, 2011 at 5:33pm
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Most likely they had intertubes as I recall.. And Chains,, Well,,, not that often because they would wreck the roadway surface. My grandfather always talked about the chains on the semi's back in the 1930's and 40's when he drove over the road especially heading towards North Dakota and sometimes Chicago. He would pull over and put them on the truck himself for traction and his safety.
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i have no idea what made me think of this tonight, but i am old enough to remember when car tires were so big that you couldn't really move them if you were a girl. not much anyway. i remember bugging my father to teach me how to change a tire and him saying "why? you can't move it much less put it on the car!" ...and then there'd be some kind of argument over all that. but those tires were HUGE and took up the garage. does anyone else remember chains on them for the snow?
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it's so confusing to know how much is real safety and how much is just fear induced marketing. one thing i remember my parents always doing was getting huge cars. i used to ask my dad why we had such enormous cars, and his answer was always "i'm not driving you all those miles in something we don't have some room to crash in." and he had a point. yes we rolled around. but there was also a million feet between us and the end of the car back then! and then i think of all the things we DON"T keep our kids safe from now that they did back then. back then, my parents were particular about who i hung out with. they had to get to know them. and now we just let our kids text people we have never met or talked to. which is more dangerous? hard to know
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Comment by Toby McConnell on September 1, 2011 at 9:35pm
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Ignorance IS bliss, Lisa! I couldn't imagine letting my children float around a car today. My personal feeling is that car seats were invented not so much for safety but parents' sanity. And they can't blame us. The government takes that rap!
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i'm so sorry about your dad, bob. i think my dad's death was work induced too, but we won't be sure. .....toby i remember the same thing. we used to do alot of long distance car riding, and i, too, would stretch out and look at the signs going along, i'd look at how the moon followed us, i can't imagine those drives all strapped in sitting in buckets. i realize it's safer, but i'm glad we had it differently and lived through it.
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I also recall the seatbelt-free days. I have many good memories of lying down in the back of my parents' car, my head usually on my grandmother's lap as I read aloud the neon signs fronting the many motels along Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. They flashed past the side windows at just the perfect angle for reading.
I'm sorry to read about your father, Robert. He must have suffered a lot. My husband talks often of his grandfather who worked all kinds of dangerous jobs inhaling noxious fumes long before OSHA.
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I agree with your comment.. My dad drove a semi in the cities up here and I don't remember ever seeing any.. But I do remember the smell of the deisel exaust fumes on his clothes which is how he died at age 59. He got black lung which is listed as emphazima and shouldn't be. It was one of the occupational hazards at that time, yet no one talked about it..not even OSHA whom we contacted would help him or my mom.
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my father probably never wore a seatbelt in his life. and it was torture training my mother to use one! we use to just roll around in the back of a huge sedan!
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